Stories tagged with: dr

• Amid COVID-19 surge, DR teams respond to hurricane damage in south Texas

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, July 29, 2020 (one year ago)

  

  SBTC photo

  DEEP SOUTH TEXAS (BP) -- Disaster relief volunteers are responding to flooding and power outages in the wake of Hurricane Hanna, which dumped up to 16 inches of rain in deep south Texas after it struck the area Saturday (July 25).

  No deaths have been reported in Texas, but FOX News reported Tuesday that at least two people in Mexico were killed amid flooding from torrential rains as the category 1 hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm and continued south. Read More

• Gordon's Gulf flood risks put DR volunteers on alert

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, September 04, 2018 (3 years ago)

  

  Screen grab from The Weather Channel video

  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Anticipated flooding from Tropical Storm Gordon has Southern Baptist volunteers on alert in three Gulf Coast states, and may extend responses in the already-flooded Midwest as Gordon moves inland.

  The storm will likely intensify to a Category 1 hurricane as it comes ashore between western Alabama and eastern Louisiana this evening (Sept. 4), the Weather Channel reported, but will quickly weaken again to a tropical storm as it moves inland, perhaps over Arkansas. Read More

• NY names 2 streets for Baptist pioneer Samuel Simpson

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, July 10, 2018 (3 years ago)

  

  Alan King Facebook photo

  NEW YORK (BP) -- New York has renamed two streets to honor the late Samuel Simpson, noted as a pioneering African American Southern Baptist pastor and community revitalizer.

  "Reverend Dr. Samuel G. Simpson Way" marks the corner of 187th Street and Tiebout Avenue outside Bronx Baptist Church, and the corner of Strang and Murdock Avenues outside Wake-Eden Community Baptist Church, two congregations Simpson founded. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: ‘And To Think That I Saw It’

  by Terri Stovall, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2015 (7 years ago)

  FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, penned the lines of his first book, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” 75 years ago:

  When I leave home to walk to school,

  Dad always says to me,

  “Marco, Keep your eyelids up

  And see what you can see.” Read More